Quotes About Compulsion

Language was both his livelihood and his addiction and he was often preyed upon by a near irresistible compulsion to eavesdrop on conversations in public places.

He wrote more or less the same way as he dreamed or masturbated: a mixture of compulsion, enthusiasm, despair, disgust, and wretchedness. And in those days he also had an insatiable curiosity to try to understand why people hurt each other, and themselves, without meaning to at all.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

You write what you are compelled to.

the only addiction where the sufferer longed for anything but the desired;

I'm telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of the illness in this world is the doctor's own illness; his compulsion to try to cure and his fraudulent belief that he can.

Is the thing we love always our downfall? Always our destruction?

Sometimes, even though you know something is a mistake, you can't stop yourself from going there.

Ah Werther, elinizin de?di?i her ?eye kar?? bu kadar hiddetli yakla?an, kar?? konulamaz bir tutkuyla ba?lanan biri olmak zorunda m?yd?n?z?

Rebecca saw red.The urge she had to fly at Elizabeth with her nails bared was too compelling. She couldn't resist it. That Elizabeth immediately stomped off wasn't going to stop her. She was going to cause the worst scandal London had seen in decades,and she didn't care!

The whole point of collecting is the thrill of acquisition, which must be maximized, and maintained at all costs.

He had tried everything, cutting down (many devices), pipes, cigars, even cold turkey. He had quit once in Rome, for seven hours after breakfast, during the last two of which his (first) wife was begging him to take it up again.

My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

What they don't understand—and the wide world certainly does not understand—is that these reckless acts do stem from a biological need to alter their inner state. In pain, they feel compelled to seek relief immediately.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

L]ike DiMaggio putting daily flowers on Marilyn's grave, I find myself compulsively drifting past here every day in a vigil that only reinforces my unredeemability.

Life has no purpose. It just 'is.' This is the 'secret' children know and adults forget as they launch head first into a life of compulsion and bondage as they pursue the world. Children do not appropriate and are free. Adults desire the wrong things and throw themselves into exile.

I had no technique for dealing with him: only an overpowering, unnerving, irrational, chemical desire to be with him.

Alas, non-therapy relationships sometimes can't withstand the task of undoing childhood-based insecurity (the avoidance of intimacy or the compulsion to merge and fear of being abandoned).

the judge Don Achille speaks up, with sly and devastating irony, saying that the whole history of mankind is the history of rhetoric: that is, the history of moving masses of people by words, words, words. That is all there is in Political Life Under Compulsion. Words are not troves of truth or bands of friendship. They are tools, and the people who use them are tools, and so are the people upon whom they are used.

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

Based on what I'd heard thus far, I could have easily and justifiably accused Jeff of stalking Francis Arsenault.

A man may remain single by choice, but a woman only by compulsion.